68% agree humanity is causing climate change, while skeptics “represent a fringe position”
January 31, 2011
The public’s belief in global warming as a man-made danger has weathered the storm of climate controversies and cold weather intact, according to aGuardian/ICM opinion poll published today.
Asked if climate change was a current or imminent threat, 83% of Britons agreed, with just 14% saying global warming poses no threat. Compared with August 2009, when the same question was asked, opinion remained steady despite a series of events in the intervening 18 months that might have made people less certain about the perils of climate change
So the emails — which originated in Britain — had no noticeable impact, nor did a couple of “trivial mistakes” in the IPCC. This suggests the British public understands that, after multiple vindications, the notion that a few cherry-picked quotes from e-mails undermined the overwhelming scientific understanding of climate science was just B.S.*
